New York band Cymbals Eat Guitars began to build up its buzz around the time of the release of their first album, 2009’s solid Why There Are Mountains. They toured heavily to support the album including an unbelievably high-energy sweat-drenched set opening for The Thermals at Madison’s very own Annex. Then in 2011, they announced they’d finally signed to Barsuk Records and were poised to release their sophomore effort, Lenses Alien, which expands and improves upon virtually every aspect of the band’s already impressive arsenal. That fact is made immediately and abundantly clear on the album’s first track, the wonderful eight and a half minute “Rifle Eyesight (Proper Name).”
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